Air leavening

Learn about this topic in these articles:

use in baking

Angel food cakes, sponge cakes, and similar products are customarily prepared without either yeast or chemical leaveners. Instead, they are leavened by air entrapped in the product through vigorous beating. This method requires a readily foaming ingredient capable of retaining the air…

Air-leavened bakery products, avoiding the flavours arising from chemical- and yeast-leavening systems, are particularly suitable for delicately flavoured cakes. Since the batters can be kept on the acidic side of neutrality, the negative influence of chemical leaveners on fruit flavours and vanilla is…